During by time as a law student, I was called a liberal and social worker by my politically conservative class mates. Do you remember the term young republicans? I went to school with a lot of young republicans. I would hear comments from the back room of class that I should be a lawyer for social work agencies because I would cay when briefing a case that society should judge what is right or wrong in come cases not the law courts.
I am not a liberal in the normal sense of the word. Whatever is a normal liberal these days that it. I did have minor in sociology however as an undergrad. So I do know the concept of social work.
Social workers are those people you see in the movies of the fifties and the sixties who are trying to rescue the misunderstood person who is on the wrong track in life because he was raised wrong or because he is angry at society or because he cannot get a job. In the movie where Marlon Brando plays a rebel on a motorcycle who gives the establishment a hard time we come to sympathize with him. It is not his fault he is angry and disrupting life everywhere he goes. It is society’s fault for not providing him what he needed to be a respectable member of society.
Conservatives have two words for the rebel; self responsibility. If you break the law the conservative says it is your fault. If you do not have a job conservative say it is your fault. If you do not have an education, the conservative will say it is your fault.
But the social worker, or at least those with degrees in sociology will say that a person who is raised for instance in the ghetto in a one parent family living in a neighborhood filled with illegal activity like illegal drug dealing, illegal gambling, and prostitution has many disadvantages compared to a person raised in an upper class family with two parents living in a nice home on a street unfamiliar to crime.
I have worked in the ghetto as a salesman. I have worked as a salesman in some rich communities. I know this, if I had my choice of areas to grow up, I would choose the rich side of town. No matter how smart a child is or how driven he is to work his way out of the ghetto, the child in the rich area simply has more advantages. Even if you simply count not being harassed by drug dealers or approached by prostitutes on the way to school an advantage.
I do believe in self responsibility though. If you choose a life of crime no matter what side of the city you live in, it is your choice and you cannot blame anyone else. But social workers are insulted when they are referred to as bleeding heart liberals by conservatives or anyone who does not think they serve a valuable role in our society.
But there are several children residing in a crime filled jungle of depression and disillusion. Many want out. They do not want to hear about their environment and they do not need others to feel sorry for them. They simply want someone to lend them a hand so they can pull themselves up. And that is where social work agencies can help.
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